MILAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Milan mean? 

• MILAN (noun)
  The noun MILAN has 1 sense:

1. the capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the Middle Ages

  Familiarity information: MILAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital of Lombardy in northern Italy; has been an international center of trade and industry since the Middle Ages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Milan; Milano

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

Meronyms (members of "Milan"):

Milanese (a native or inhabitant of Milan)

Holonyms ("Milan" is a part of...):

Lombardia; Lombardy (a region of north central Italy bordering Switzerland)

 Context examples 

One day, when my father had gone by himself to Milan, my mother, accompanied by me, visited this abode.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Geminga’s name is both a play on the phrase Gemini gamma-ray source and the expression it’s not there — referring to astronomers’ inability to find the object at other energies — in the dialect of Milan, Italy.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

Now that Sir John Hawkwood hath gone with the East Anglian lads and the Nottingham woodmen into the service of the Marquis of Montferrat to fight against the Lord of Milan, there are but ten score of us left, yet I trust that I may be able to bring some back with me to fill the ranks of the White Company.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub—a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)